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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Catching up

Rain! Glorious rain fell here yesterday. Do you know the best thing about rain? It melts snow and ice. It's sort of like that game rock, scissors, paper...remember that? Rain beats snow and ice! My driveway is clear for the first time in a month and my car still starts! We won't talk about the snow prediciton for Friday.

My landline phone works again - well it never really stopped working - I mean you could get a dial tone...if you listened very carefully you could hear the dial tone through the horrendous hum and static. Snowed in and no phone - those days were so comforting! Let's not do that again soon.

My internet connection comes and goes - so does our email. Our modem went too...died...right as I was trying to upload a new soap to my website. Frustration level - 10+! They are "working on it". I can just imagine them out there in the trenches, in the rain, sleet and snow diligently searching for and finding the problem and fixing it.....I so believe that is happening.....if I put on red shoes and tap my heels three times will it make it all come true?

Because I haven't had an internet connection last long enough to change it, my Soap Making Made Simple e-book and my Herbal Medicine Made Simple e-book are still on sale. Fair warning though - as soon as I get 5 minutes of internet access in a row the sale is coming down. Better get them while you can.

I need some help naming some new soaps. I guess I'll do some short posts for each contest because my internet connection is so reliable....

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I am mama to four wonderful guys. I have two sons at home and two married sons close by. We live on a farm in TN. We seek to live a simple, self-sufficient life as we depend on God for His direction and His grace.
“But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more; that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing. I Thes.4:10-12
May God grant us the grace to live passionately, yet simply, for Him!

My Favorite Herb Books!

The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils

Prescription for Herbal Healing

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Favorite Quotes

“God is not a belief to which you give your assent. God becomes a reality whom you know intimately, meet everyday, one whose strength becomes your strength, whose love, your love. Live this life of the presence of God long enough and when someone asks you, “Do you believe there is a God?” you may find yourself answering, “No, I do not believe there is a God. I know there is a God.” ~Ernest Boyer, Jr.

We do not get involved in sin to create problems...we do so to fill a void in our lives that we're not allowing God to fill.

“It is not what we say or feel that makes us what we are. It is what we do.....or fail to do.” Marianne, BBC 2007 production of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” ~Andrew Davies

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself."~ Dostoevsky